Volvo has introduced a new set belt technology that can customize the protection provided in real -time. The “multi -adaptive safety belt” system, as the automacker is calling it, uses data input from both interior and external sensors to change the protection settings based on various factors. It can keep a person’s height, weight, physical shape and seating position, as well as take the direction and speed of the vehicle. This system can convey all this information to the seat belt to “blink eyebrows” so that it can improve passenger protection.
If the passenger is large, for example, they will get a high sequence of belt loads to reduce the risk of head injury in case of a serious accident. Small of mild crash, someone with small frames will find a low belt load set to prevent rib injuries. Volvo did not specifically say whether this system also takes place in the seat belt position on women, as it does not always fit the chest of a woman. However, the automaker explained that the system increases the number of profiles that restrict the load to 11. The limits of the load control how coercively applies to the body of the seat belt during the accident. Generally, the seat belt has only three loads of profiles, but Volvo extended them to 11, which means that the system can improve the passenger’s protection better.
Volvo used information from a database of more than 80,000 people involved in real -life accidents for five decades of protective research and to design a new protective belt. The system was also created to include the reforms developed by software updates, which the company expects to release because it receives more data and insights.
“The world’s first multi -adaptive safety belt is another milestone for automotive safety, and an excellent example of how we benefit from real -time data to help save millions of lives,” said the head of the Volo Cars Safety Center, said. “It has an important upgrade to the modern three -point safety belt, which is invented in 1959, which is estimated to save more than a million lives.”
Volvo Engineer Nels Bohlin designed a modern three -point set belt and made his patent available for the use of other carmakers. The company did not say whether it would be so generous with a multi -delay safety belt, but the new system would be debuted in the All -Electric Volvo EX60 Midsize SUV next year.
